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How add a group by option in my custom transformer? Example:  Another example might be if I put a Counter with local scope starting at 0 inside the custom transformer, then I would like to group by for instance _creation_instance - to get three features out all with _count = 0. In the Custom transformer I see a setting Group by <not set> but I am not able to edit that one (there are no suggestions when opening it). I tried creating a parameter called fme_group_by but that did not work either. How can I do this?

Hi all, I am trying to use the following link to setup a json file and automated script to extract data. It is the first time I have attempted to do this and I have used the httpcaller and also tried the json reader to get an output.  I am just trying to tackle this one step at a time and very eager to get my first API working. In terms of the link I used https://api.coronavirus.data.gov.uk/v1/data which I added to the httpcaller. It did pick this up and then i was not able to get anything from the attributexposer. Can anyone assist with what they would recommend as next steps?  Link to dev guide - https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/developers-guide

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Hi, I'm using a feature reader to read a bunch of CSV's with changing column and data row numbers. I first extract the row numbers with a text file reader en feed these values into a feature reader. Like so: When running the workspace it looks like FME interprets my expression as a text:Using FME 2020.1 here. Does anyone know what is wrong? The feature reader only allows for arithmetic expressions so no option to enter text in the "Data Start Line" field Freek

I have a workspace that is writing to Google BigQuery and is connecting using the service account key file option. For this to work, the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS must be set to the path of the key file. I have uploaded the file to my FME Cloud instance, but need to know how to set the environment variable.

I wonder if there is a slack/discord or other platform that users can social, ask questions and get help?

Hi everyone, this should be a simple thing to do, but I can't find how (or even it is not possible). Thanks!

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I'm newbie...I adapted the code of FME's exampleFME Server Playground - Upload File In Sessionto run as custom-widget within ESRI Web AppBuilder (Developer Edition) and I have unexpected problem. This problem occurrs also if I run the exact code of the original FME's example, since the code is good, only my cloud workspace apparently lack some definitions. I'll explain - If I run FME's original code example using FME's original easyTranslator.fme workspace, then for different input files I get different results (well, it's obvious expected behaviour...).Same if I run it on easyTranslator.fme which FME has put inside "Sample" folder in my cloud (I assume it's exactly same workspace). But when I run SAME exact FME's code example on MY FME's cloud workspace that was created independently, it returns ALWAYS the results zip code of the FIRST input file, no matter if I upload other file and run on it. And if I run it from the beginning on a n

Hello everyone,please, Im thinking about the most simple way, how to test text string to contain any letter combinations?E.g. I have got some codes - 1B3DDD386MND, 1B3DDD386CDL etc. and I have separately Excel file, where are allowed and forbidden letter combinations. CDL is forbidden string combination, so I need to detect this combination. In Excel, there are thousands of these combinations, so its highly time demanding to put all this combinations to tester transformer with CONTAINS condition.Any tips how to solve it highly effective? Thanks a lot!Lubo

I have a list attribute that I'd like to use in a JSONTemplator. I am able to get the list into an array no issues, however, I want the result to be an array of integers/numbers rather than a string. If it was not a list I can use the xs:integer to try to force it to be an integer, however, I'm not quite sure how I should do this for values in a list. Any ideas on this?

I am trying to restrict licence on a floating licence server to a certain machine and i did as instructed in here:http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Desktop_Admin_Guide/FMEInstallation/Restricting_Licenses_to_Users_or_Groups.htmand create a safe.opt in the same folder as safe.exe in the FlexServer folder with the safe.opt content as :RESERVE 1 professional HOST_GROUP groupA HOST_GROUP groupA GIS-TEST2i thought the problem was that i need to restart the server but still not working even though in the log file it clearly says :(safe) Using options file: "C:\\Program Files\\FlexServer\\safe.opt"i thought the problem was with the name of the machine (which i got from running "lmutil lmstat -a -c safe.lic" while it was connected) so i tried again using the IP instead but still not working

While converting a DWG file into shapefile, using FME's workspace transformations, all the metadata of the DWG is lost. Inside the DWG , for each feature, there are a lot of metadata for example –LayerHandleColorTextEtc. It is expected that this information will be persevered and will be available inside the SHP file as attributes. Right now, as default, the attribute table of the SHP file is empty. It's a "stopshow" for us...Help will be greatly appreciated, Michael

The question is in the title.Which is the best linux distribution recommanded for FME applications?I heard good things about Debian and OpenSuse. What is your opinion about that?

I have a Excel with 290 Rows and i want to Split that Excel at row 42 into different Pages. Result would be 42 Rows at Page 1. Next 42 Rows Page 2 and so on.I thought i could do it with a loop like count till 42 and then count again and filter by <= 42 but its not working.

Hi, I would like to make a map with arcpy in a FME template, how can I achieve it and which transformer should I use?😀

After creating an FME Server Resource Connection, how can I work with this to author my workspaces? When I view the Folder properties in FME Server I can see the System path references an FME Server macro $(), however when I specify this path within my workspace it shows red because FME Desktop does not recognise this as an existing parameter.

Hello there, Im using the Shortest path finder transformer to analyse best routes from A 's to B's where the network is a road system. There is however a bit of flexibility in my project where the route could sometimes go "offroad" to skip going long detours. So i used my MS Paint superskills to explain what I mean.  Lets say that the black lines in the road system (network) and the yellow line represent the best result from ShortestPathFinder for getting from A to B. But it needs to take that tedious detour to west and then east again and i would want to allow it to take the green dotted detour instead (marked X), even if there is no road present there.  Pretty sure that the ShortestPathFinder does not have that option so I was wondering if anyone here has a suggestion how to solve this? And then in a way that you can set a snapping tolerance requirement for shortcuts (for example has to be max 10m a part for it to be allowed) or it wont happen. And in a way you ca

I would like to replace any negative raster cell values with their positive equivalent either using abs(value) or another other means. Is this possible with a transformer, can I obtain the cell value and use rastercellvaluereplacer?Thank you for your help

Hi,Which combination of FME transformers would I need to use for splitting an irregular polygon into convex partitions (and possibly also minimizing the number of resulting parts). The following figure illustrates what I am trying to obtain:I have come up with an approach based on the Triangulator which can be described as follows:Sorting all interior lines from the triangulation by decreasing lengthConsider the first occurrenceIdentify the 2 adjacent polygonsDissolve those 2 polygonsCheck convexity of resultIf convex, keep resultIf concave, discard resultThe process should for instance escape the loop when all interior lines have been consideredI created an FME workspace which does this.The initial figure:would become like this after triangulation:And ultimately the end result would be the following where all parts are convex:However the iterations are hard-coded for the moment because the custom transformer I tried to create contains blocking transformers and multiple loops which are

How can I add a map image to an email.I have a lat long coordinate. I do not have a google maps api key so google maps is out of the question. Any tips would be really appreciated.

Hi All,  I'm looking for some ideas on how to get the z value from a point cloud onto a point in porformant way. As far as I can tell there is no easy way to do it. Am i missing something? Options I can see available:  Convert to Raster with RasterDEMGenerator and use PointOnRasterValueExtractor - pretty cpu and memory intensive Convert to points and use NeighborFinder - pretty cpu and memory intensive Has anyone got this process figured out?    

I've seen similar questions asked here but cannot find real solutions. So here's what I'm trying to do..I would like to get information from this page as an example: https://help.autodesk.com/view/CONNECT/ENU/?guid=GUID-03D59AAD-65B0-45E3-84F2-A12AAA5BB267.If you look at the page source, you'll see there isn't much valuable info. here and it seems to be using javascript to serve up the page (which updates when a new version is released, maintaining the original URL). If I use an HTTP caller with a GET method, I get the same page source. However I'm interested in the text you see in the loaded page. There are lots of sites out there built this way nowadays, which work in a very similar, dynamic way.Is there a solution to get data from this kind of page? The only plausible (and costly) way would be to use some service such as parsehub.com (which I have not used or tested) where you could use their REST API to get data into FME: https://www.parsehub.com/docs/ref/a

I have FME Desktop 2017 and ArcGIS 10.6.1 installed. I followed all the steps in the FME Integration Console, but I didn't get the desired result. What is the problem?Thank!

Hello FME-Experts!I have no experience with reading of html code, but I have problems reading data from a simple html file.If I use the HTML Table reader I get only the first record (witch contain the attribute name of the data) and not the 4 records that I need.I think, the workflow has to be simple but I tried several options without results.I attach an html example file.Thank you very much for the help!